Elmina Beck was born hearing voices that no one else could hear. She was treated by psychiatrists and therapists throughout her entire childhood to no avail. When she could stand it no longer, she sought to end it all but was stopped by a call for help. Hearing another’s pain, El set aside her plan only to find that she’d saved a shaman of great power… a shaman who called her sister and offered to teach her about the voices. Five years later, El is now a spirit talker and part of the Wider World – the paranormal community hidden beside the mundane.

The voices El hears are spirits, spirits of nature and of the newly dead. They often help her in her work, but they can also ask for much in return. When the spirit of a murdered woman asks for justice El promises to do her best, but the path to justice leads her deep into the darker side of the supernatural Wider World. Can El find others willing to help her keep her promise before she’s lost to the dark? Who knew that healing both the living and the dead would bring Hellspawn to her door?